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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.104.NO.23
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1994
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Mix-up in Ellsworth corrected
State architect to make plans for laundry room
By Ashley Miller
Kansan staff writer
Residents in Ellsworth Hall won't have to find someplace else to do laundry.
The building and fire code violations found earlier this month in the new laundry facility will not force the department of student housing to shut it down, said Ken Stoner, director of the department.
"I think we can keep in operation what we've got in operation," he said.
According to a press release issued on Tuesday by University Relations, the Office of
Design and Construction Management is planning to meet soon with a state-approved architect to develop plans for changes in the facility.
Jim Modig, director of the office, declined to comment on the case.
A Sept. 6 inspection by Modig's office uncovered violations of five codes, including the Uniform Building Code, the Uniform Mechanical Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code, the National Electric Code and the National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Code.
Some corrective measures already have been taken to solve the problems, Stoner said. Five of the 14 dryers were removed because the dryer vents were too long.
If the dryers were equipped with fans, long vents would not be a problem, Stoner said, but the dryers in Ellsworth did not have fans. Over a period of time lint could build up in the vents, which is a potential fire hazard.
Ross Boelling, chief of the fire prevention division of the State Fire Marshal's Office, said the office planned to be involved in the rest of the renovations.
Rodger Oroke, director of facilities management, said there was a certain procedure for completing construction work at KU that student housing failed to follow.
"They addressed the problem in a timely manner, so no action was taken." Boelling said.
When a department wants construction work completed, such as enlarging a room or knocking out a wall, it is supposed to file a request with Design and Construction.
"Any modifications in state-owned buildings have to go through that office," he said.
If student housing had worked with Design and Construction to build the facility, the violations could have been avoided, Oroke said.
Oroke said student housing used their own maintenance staff to build the facility. He said facilities operations did most of the construction work for the University.
Stoner said the request was not filed because of a lack of communication.
Stormy they hawk, to ten the truth, he said.
President Obama said a presidential death last May. He thought a design request had already been filed.
"The good of this is it's been called to our attention," Stoner said. "We do what we have to do on this project, we learn our lesson and move on."
After discovering the violations during the Sept. 6 inspection, the Design and Construction staff was denied access to the bollerv room under the laundry facility.
Stoner said he did not know why the staff was not allowed into the boilerroom during the inspection.
"I don't know what happened there." Stoner said. "I mean, if people want in, we'll let them in."
He said he thought Ellsworth employees either did not have a key to the boilerroom or did not think representatives from Design and Construction could enter the room. The inspectors left Ellsworth before permission was cleared for them to see the room.
KU director gets best of both worlds
Gloria Flores, associate director of Minority Affairs, started in January. Flores said Hispanics could succeed in the United States while maintaining their heritage.
Jay Thornton / KANSAN
By Nathan Olson Kansan staff writer
Gloria Flores had a revelation her freshman year at the University of Central Arkansas.
"I was in the main building on campus," she said, "when I saw a display with Mexican artifacts. I felt like a warm blanket had been wrapped around me. That was when I decided to major in Spanish."
Flores, who is now the associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, credited her parents for giving her both American and Mexican values.
Flores recalled a conversation with her father once when they were visiting Mexico.
"I said to him, 'Dad, I'm a full-blooded Mexican,'" she said. "He said I wasn't. I said, 'Mom is Mexican, and you're Mexican, so I'm Mexican.' And he told me that because we lived in the United States, the American influence was now a part of my life."
That American influence, Flores said, has helped her in many ways. She said that in the United States, she had fewer restrictions on her expected role as a woman.
Flores' parents moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, from northern Mexico in the mid-1950s. When Flores was ten, her family moved to Hope, Ark. Flores lived in Hope until she
went to college.
Because her parents spoke Spanish in their house, Flores also learned about Mexican culture.
"Family, especially extended family, is very important in Mexican culture," she said. "When we built our house in Hope, my father added an extra room in case we needed to take care of relatives."
After graduating Flores traveled throughout the United States.
"During that year I got to meet African-American sisters, Asian-American sisters and Hispanic-American sisters. It opened my eyes to diversity." she said.
But Flores' eyes have also been opened to prejudice.
"Some Hispanic men have trouble with a Hispanic woman in power," she said.
"My advice to Hispanic-American women would be that they should embark on opportunities at every turn. More Hispanic women need to be more confident in their abilities.
"We need to preserve the strength, history and culture of being Hispanic women but not in a subservient role."
Sandra Olivas, president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, is one of Flores' biggest supporters.
"There are not very many Hispanic women in education," Olivas said. "It's very hard to make it in the world as a Hispanic woman. Gloria's made it while retaining both Mexican and American cultures."
Speech to discuss problems Hispanic women face
Kansan staff writer
By Nathan Olson
Christine Arguello, associate professor of law, still vividly remembers her first year at Harvard Law School. That year the Chicano Law Students Association at
"It was a very close and controversial vote." she said.
It was a very close and controversial vote, she said.
The event for Arguello undercooked the problems Hispanic women face in today's society. Those problems will be part of Arguello's discussion at 7 tonight in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The speech is titled "The Added Obstacles of Being a Hispanic Woman in Today's Society."
Arguello said she thought some of the added obstacles came from the machismo in Hispanic culture.
For Arguello, overcoming obstacles led to becoming the first Hispanic woman from Colorado to attend Harvard Law School and becoming the first minority partner at Holland and Hart, the largest law firm in Colorado.
"I think there are more obstacles for Hispanic women than men," she said.
"Although it's getting better now, the Hispanic culture has been very chauvinistic," she said. "There were times as a child when I said, 'Why was I born a girl?'
Education has played a crucial role in her success.
"I was lucky because my family encouraged education," she said. "There was no discrimination about who was educated in my immediate family.
But Arguello said that many of her female cousins still were not encouraged to go to college.
"And I was the brains of the family."
Another part of Arguello's success was her attitude.
"I have an optimistic outlook on life," she said. "I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I'm not walking around with a grudge."
Sandra Olivas, president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, said that Argello's speech was part of an effort during Hispanic Heritage Month to be more inclusive.
"In the past, most keynote speakers have been men," Olivas said. "We've tried this year to concentrate on contributions Hispanic women have made."
Olivas said she hoped that Arguello's speech would help unify Hispanic women, a concept Arguello said was very important.
"Hispanic women shouldn't be afraid to look back and help others," she said. "Together we can make it."
In addition to community and education, Arguello said
Julianne Peter / KANBAN
Christine Arguello, assistant professor of law talks about growing up Hispanic and her years as a student at Harvard Law School.
that young Hispanic women should not be afraid to set high goals.
"Not enough Hispanic women have faith in themselves," she said. "They should be disciplined and not let obstacles get in their way."
AKU freshman has the last hurrah as a dyemaker's daughter at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
Haitian police violence lessens in U.S. presence
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The motorcade roared up to Haitian army headquarters yesterday carrying the top U.S. general in Haiti with a message for the country's military rulers: Stop beating up your people.
The Associated Press
Another 1,000 U.S. military police flew in to help back up Lt. Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton's words.
By late afternoon, American troops arrived at the Haitian army's only munitions depot to dismantle the Caribbean nation's heavy artillery, equipment and weapons.
Haitian police sheathed the clubs they had used Tuesday in full view of American troops. But they still shoved and threatened people and in one case hurtled through a crowd in a van to break up a demonstration.
"Get out of way! I'm going to lick your butt!" one policeman shouted. He was
pushing one of at least 5,000 Haitians who have been drawn to the U.S. beachheads here, hoping that America's Operation Uphold Democracy will actually do so.
Haiti's de facto government banned public gatherings, an action criticized by the U.S. Embassy as anti-democratic and largely ignored yesterday by thousands of Haitians.
Human rights organizations and Washington itself until recently had depicted the Haitian police and army as killers, rapists, extortionists and kidnappers. Since the 1991 coup that ousted the elected government, up to 3,000 Haitians have been killed in military-tolerated political violence.
"The habits of violence will not be shed overnight," President Clinton said. "We will make steady progress. We will restore democracy. We will also work to moderate the conduct of Haitian security forces without assuming their responsibilities."
However, Shelton said there were limits
to the U.S. mission. "We-certainly cannot police 100 percent of Haiti." he said.
Exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who is to return to office under the agreement reached last weekend with the Haitian military, finally voiced his support for the U.S. effort, after days of indirect criticism.
"Use of unnecessary force is a matter of concern to us," the general said yesterday. "The military and police have not had to
"Nothing must block this light of peace — neither violence nor vengeance, guns nor provocation, impunity nor retaliation." Aristide said in a ceremony on the steps of the Pentagon. "Peace must flourish in Haiti."
Fleets of helicopters, planes and amphibious boats kept ferrying in the American troops yesterday. Shelton, who counted 35 C-5 and C-141 landings by midmorning, expected up to 10,000 troops by day's end, not including the 1,000 military police.
deal with such large numbers. They are not trained in crowd control."
U. S. troops late yesterday occupied the Camp d'Application in suburban Petionville, where such heavy equipment as six V-150 armored vehicles, 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft weapons, anti-tank weapons and artillery is stored. The equipment was to be "rendered inoperable."
American soldiers should be fanning out into the countryside by tomorrow, trying to train traditionally repressive rural police and soldiers how to do their jobs in a more professional manner.
Humanitarian aid to Haiti also will increase sharply as U.S. soldiers are deployed, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, said yesterday.
But she reiterated that the United States would not ask the U.N. Security Council to lift the economic embargo that had crippled Haiti until the coup leaders stepped down and Aristide was back in office.